While Western headlines scream about Ebola vaccines as if the continent is perpetually caught off-guard, the reality is that African scientists from Dakar to Kinshasa have been building robust epidemic response systems since long before COVID made the world care about pandemic preparedness. The DRC's current outbreak isn't a story of African helplessness—it's a testament to how continental expertise, from the Africa CDC's surveillance networks to homegrown research institutions, is finally being recognized as essential rather than auxiliary in global health security.

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